This report provides common criteria to help identify high value datasets and provide examples of common types of high value datasets. It was based on jurisdictional scans of high value dataset criteria, recent surveys, and international standards

The open data portal catalogue is a downloadable dataset containing some key metadata for the general datasets available on the Government of Canada's Open Data portal. Resource 1 is generated using the ckanapi tool (external link) Resources 2 - 8 are generated using the Flatterer (external link) utility. ###Description of resources: 1. Dataset is a JSON Lines (external link) file where the metadata of each Dataset/Open Information Record is one line of JSON. The file is compressed with GZip. The file is heavily nested and recommended for users familiar with working with nested JSON. 2. Catalogue is a XLSX workbook where the nested metadata of each Dataset/Open Information Record is flattened into worksheets for each type of metadata. 3. datasets metadata contains metadata at the dataset level. This is also referred to as the package in some CKAN documentation. This is the main table/worksheet in the SQLite database and XLSX output. 4. Resources Metadata contains the metadata for the resources contained within each dataset. 5. resource views metadata contains the metadata for the views applied to each resource, if a resource has a view configured. 6. datastore fields metadata contains the DataStore information for CSV datasets that have been loaded into the DataStore. This information is displayed in the Data Dictionary for DataStore enabled CSVs. 7. Data Package Fields contains a description of the fields available in each of the tables within the Catalogue, as well as the count of the number of records each table contains. 8. data package entity relation diagram Displays the title and format for column, in each table in the Data Package in the form of a ERD Diagram. The Data Package resource offers a text based version. 9. SQLite Database is a .db database, similar in structure to Catalogue. This can be queried with database or analytical software tools for doing analysis.

This API provides live access to the CKAN portion of the Open Government Portal and Registry systems. ### Portal: https://open.canada.ca * Our public data portal * Includes data federated from provinces and municipalities * Read-only API calls can be made without an API key * Authorization required only for publishing federated data ### Registry: https://registry.open.canada.ca * Accessible within the Government of Canada (GoC) network for collecting and publishing data from GoC departments * New datasets must be manually reviewed and approved by the Open Government team * Publishes approved datasets to the Production Portal automatically * User account or API key required for all operations

The Service Inventory provides a corporate-wide perspective on information related to Government of Canada (GC) services. A visualization of this data can be found on GC InfoBase at https://www.tbs-sct.gc.ca/ems-sgd/edb-bdd/index-eng.html#infographic/gov/gov/services

Justice Canada’s Open Government (OpenGov) Advisory Group is an internal advisory group that provides expert guidance and endorses the Department's open government initiatives. This internal advisory group reports annually to senior managers within the Department on their activities through a year in review report. These reports are now available to the public.

Building a comprehensive data inventory as required by section 6.3 of the Directive on Open Government: “Establishing and maintaining comprehensive inventories of data and information resources of business value held by the department to determine their eligibility and priority, and to plan for their effective release.” Creating a data inventory is among the first steps in identifying federal data that is eligible for release. Departmental data inventories has been published on the Open Government portal, Open.Canada.ca, so that Canadians can see what federal data is collected and have the opportunity to indicate what data is of most interest to them, helping departments to prioritize data releases based on both external demand and internal capacity. The objective of the inventory is to provide a landscape of all federal data. While it is recognized that not all data is eligible for release due to the nature of the content, departments are responsible for identifying and including all datasets of business values as part of the inventory exercise with the exception of datasets whose title contains information that should not be released to be released to the public due to security or privacy concerns. These titles have been excluded from the inventory. Departments were provided with an open data inventory template with standardized elements to populate, and upload in the metadata catalogue, the Open Government Registry. These elements are described in the data dictionary file. Departments are responsible for maintaining up-to-date data inventories that reflect significant additions to their data holdings. For purposes of this open data inventory exercise, a dataset is defined as: “An organized collection of data used to carry out the business of a department or agency, that can be understood alone or in conjunction with other datasets”. Please note that the Open Data Inventory is no longer being maintained by Government of Canada organizations and is therefore not being updated. However, we will continue to provide access to the dataset for review and analysis.

This dataset consolidates all the consultations submitted by departments and agencies in the Government of Canada. Please note that consultations that were entered before January 2018 may be missing information such as description and subject(s). In spring of 2018, consultation information from Government of Canada departments and agencies was migrated to this dataset and new values and fields were added.

This dataset consolidates all the proactive publication of contract reports submitted by federal government entities. Note: The information contained in these Contracts reports have been derived from data provided by the authorized federal reporting entities. As the data is unaudited, no warranty or other legal assurance as to the accuracy or completeness of this information is stated or can be implied. Any person making use of this information for any purpose does so at his or her own risk, and the Government of Canada shall have no liability. For information regarding the specifics of the contract data provided in these Contract reports, please contact the authorized federal reporting entity identified in the contract data.

This dataset captures all of the metadata elements used to describe open datasets and open information assets published on open.canada.ca.

Compilation of statistical information about access to information and privacy submitted by government institutions subject to the Access to Information Act and the Privacy Act.

This document describes our department’s plan to complete activities and deliverables aligned to the requirements of the Directive on Open Government, in order to achieve full compliance by the October 2019 implementation deadline.

This is a listing of all the Publications available on the Open Government Portal

The Open Government Implementation Plan document describes the Public Service Commission of Canada’s (PSC) planned activities and deliverables aligned based on the requirements of the Directive on Open Government.

This guide has been designed to help countries that are part of the Open Government Partnership apply Gender-based Analysis Plus (GBA+) to all open government commitments and to ensure that their commitments and their co-creation process are inclusive.

Canada’s fourth plan includes 10 new commitments that continue to promote openness, transparency, and accountability in the Government of Canada. It was developed in consultation with more than 10,000 Canadians from coast to coast to coast who provided their ideas and suggestions through online and in-person events.

This dataset provides statistics on download counts, visitors, as well as the increase of participation of Government of Canada departments and agencies in supplying more open datasets. All statistics presented, unless otherwise noted, are as of June 18, 2013 to the end of the previous month.

This file provides a metadata mapping between the Government of Canada’s Open Data Metadata Element Set and Canadian Provincial and Territorial Open Data Metadata Element Sets, where applicable. This was completed as part of a commitment made in the Government of Canada’s 4th National Action Plan, 10.6 Implement a pilot project to move toward cross-jurisdictional common data standards in line with the International Open Data Charter and other international standards – A Cross-jurisdictional metadata mapping is completed with a common set of core elements. Metadata elements were collected from open data portal throughout Canada, and this metadata mapping was completed in collaboration from the contributing provinces and territories.

The Open Government Guidebook was originally developed in 2018, through collaboration with working group members from over 25 Government of Canada (GC) departments. Through consultations with many of these departments from 2020 to 2021, this guide was updated to reflect the most recent international practices in open government. It aims to provide direction, best practices and tools to learn more about open government processes for the GC. It also outlines implementation guidance for relevant policy instruments including the Policy on Service and Digital, the Guideline on Service and Digital and the Directive on Open Government – all of which help ensure consistent approaches to open data and information practices across government.

This dataset consolidates quarterly progress for Canada’s 2022-2024 National Action Plan on Open Government

Every fall, the Receiver General publishes the Public Accounts of Canada, a three-volume set of documents that provide substantial detail on the government's financial operations over the previous fiscal year.